Last year Take-Two turned a profit without Grand Theft Auto - a feat worth shouting about, over and over again. The enabler of all this was Red Dead Redemption, a wild west cowboy game, which has now sold 8 million copies.

Take-Two went on to note 4 million sales of NBA 2K11, a game gifted a year free of a rival when EA withdrew NBA Elite 11.

Borderlands has also been a success, the franchise (all versions of the game) selling 4 million copies.

No other games were singled out - the chatter instead turning to franchises: Midnight Club has sold 18 million copies; Civilization 10 million, BioShock 8 million, Max Payne 7 million, Mafia 5 million and Carnival 4 million.

The next big thing from Rockstar and Take-Two is L.A. Noire, an impressively motion-captured, openworld detective game due May.

Take-Two also has Duke Nukem Forever, The Darkness II, BioShock Infinite, X-COM, Spec Ops: The Line, Top Spin 4, Carnival Games: Monkey See, Monkey Do and Major League Baseball 2K11.

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